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"I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."
Did Christ ask for it?
Did Christ ask for it?
deep said:
I find these beliefs very troubling and at odds with my concept of what America is about.
phillyfan26 said:
That's one of the scariest things I've ever read from a person considered a legitimate contender for president.
INDY500 said:
Almost a scary as a candidate promising to deliver "A New Covenant" for the people if elected.
INDY500 said:
Almost a scary as a candidate promising to deliver "A New Covenant" for the people if elected.
phillyfan26 said:
That's one of the scariest things I've ever read from a person considered a legitimate contender for president.
INDY500 said:
Almost a scary as a candidate promising to deliver "A New Covenant" for the people if elected.
INDY500 said:
Almost a scary as a candidate promising to deliver "A New Covenant" for the people if elected.
Earnie Shavers said:
I'm guessing that being from the US means you are also to a degree numb to just how strange those comments actually are from a leadership candidate. I think I can safely speak on the behalf of any members here from Australia, Canada, the UK or New Zealand (all the closest cultural cousins of the US) and say that if a candidate uttered a statement like that - or similar to about 80% of what has come from some of these guys - they would be instantly confined to the outer wacko in fringe in the minds of the absolute overwhelming majority. Christians included - who I think in this country at least tend to have a very good B.S detector, and historically do not want their faith anywhere near politics.
Irvine511 said:while we're on this, i think we need to isolate anyone with the flu.
MrsSpringsteen said:Seems to me protecting straight marriage starts and ends with the actions and thoughts of straights who are married, and that loving committed gay marriages only strengthen the institution of marriage as an institution.
MrsSpringsteen said:The divorce rate hasn't gone up in MA as a result of gay marriage, I believe MA has one of the lowest. Divorce is highest in certain Southern states in the Bible belt, can you believe that?
MrsSpringsteen said:In contrast, he said, the catalysts for the nation's recent school shootings -- including the one March 24 near Jonesboro that left four students and a teacher dead and 10 others wounded -- were harder to see but were driven by "the winds of spiritual change in a nation that has forgotten its God."
"Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does," Huckabee said. "Church does have the answer but will cowardly deny that it does and wonder when the world will be changed."
The shootings were just one more wake-up call to the nation, he said.
melon said:Huckabee sure makes Bush seem intelligent, by comparison.
You respect someone who stands behind such an assinine statement about AIDS?
martha said:
Working around small bipedal petrie dishes of cooties makes me want to support this idea.
BonoVoxSupastar said:
You respect someone who stands behind such an assinine statement about AIDS?
2861U2 said:
From what I understand, very little about the disease was known, and as Huckabee has said, quarantine is the proper thing to do medically when you've got a virus that is deadly and nobody knows much about it. People in here are making it sound like it was a shot against gay people. It wasn't. I fully believe he would have said the same thing regardless of what disease it was. Again, very little was known about AIDS, and nobody in this thread has provided evidence to the contrary. Also, it's upsetting that people in here are attacking Huckabee for acknowledging that he said this. What would you rather have? Have Huckabee deny that he ever said it?
BonoVoxSupastar said:
For me I can't see how anyone who knows anything about the teachings of Christ and how much he spoke about caring for the sick could say such a thing, it baffles me.
2861U2 said:
Fair point. However, human beings are not Jesus. Jesus could walk up to a leper and touch him and he would be healed. It isnt quite that simply for us. We need to take precaution in treating diseases. And it isnt like Huckabee or anyone else wasn't caring for the sick. I'm sure he does. But again, there are steps you may have to take when dealing with something like this.
Irvine511 said:
this was 1992!!!
BonoVoxSupastar said:"I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ."
2861U2 said:
And? Tell me if I'm wrong Irvine (or anyone else), but we still don't know all there is to know about AIDS, right? We still don't have a cure for AIDS, right? 15+ years later.
Again, I don't think this was a move to isolate all gay people and remove them from society. I really don't. Hopefully none of you do. I don't know the history of AIDS or the "timeline" of what was known about it. I probably wouldn't have said what Huckabee said, but I'm certainly not going to hold it against him. Apparently I'm alone in that here.
verte76 said:These statements about religion are really scary. Keep religion out of politics. That's one thing that's wrong with Bush, he can't keep nutty fundamentalist religion out of his politics.
Irvine511 said:would you recommend rounding up African-American women, as they are the group with the fastest growing HIV infection rate?
2861U2 said:
Fair point. However, human beings are not Jesus. Jesus could walk up to a leper and touch him and he would be healed. It isnt quite that simply for us. We need to take precaution in treating diseases. And it isnt like Huckabee or anyone else wasn't caring for the sick. I'm sure he does. But again, there are steps you may have to take when dealing with something like this.
2861U2 said:
Of course not.